The mandate of the Training Division is as under:

1. To review from time to time the arrangements for Police training and the needs of the country in this field in the changing social conditions and the introduction of scientific techniques in training and in police work and to formulate and coordinate training policies and programmes in the field of police administration and management.

2. To supervise and monitor the functioning of Central Detective Training Schools, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Bengaluru, Ghaziabad and Jaipur.

3. To evaluate training programmes with a view to securing such standardization and uniformity in the training arrangements including courses, syllabi and curricula for various ranks in the States/Union Territories as may be desirable and to suggest modifications and improvements that may be considered necessary from time to time to meet new challenges and problems.

4. To help devise new refresher, promotion, specialist and orientation courses considered necessary for the different grades and kinds of police offers.

5. Work relating to the establishment of the Central Medico Legal Institute and the Central Traffic Institute and other training institutes.

6. To prepare, in coordination with the police training institutions, standard manuals, textbooks, pamphlets lecture notes, case studies practise exercises and other educative literature for use in these institutions.

7. To distribute relevant literature to Inspectors General/DIsG (Training) in the States for circulation to officers in order to familiarize them with training concepts and to strengthen training consciousness among the higher ranks.

8. To standardize equipment for training and training aids and to arrange for their production and supply to the various training institutions.

9. To create and maintain a circulating library of films for the use of various police training institutions.

10. To assist in the training of police officers of various ranks at appropriate non-police institutions inside and outside the country.

11. To organize the annual Symposium of the Heads of Police Training Institutions and short Seminars on various aspects of Police training.

12. To suggest the establishment of new training institutions under the Centre as necessary from time to time.

13. To act as a clearing house for information relating to Syllabi, methods of training, teaching aids, training programmes and literature on various aspects of police work from India and abroad.

14. To liaise with the Directorate of Training Division of the Department of Personnel in relation to training aids projects and fellowships under the UNDP, UNESCO, Colombo Plan and such other arrangements.